Chief FOIA officer's recent email (U.S. Census Bureau)

Sai filed this request with the U.S. Census Bureau of the United States of America.
Tracking #

DOC-CEN-2025-000025

Multi Request Chief FOIA officer's recent email
Status
Completed

From: Sai

Dear U.S. Census Bureau,

On behalf of myself and Fiat Fiendum, I hereby request the following records:

1. The one email in your chief FOIA officer's email inbox or equivalent which was received nearest and before October 19, 2024, midnight Eastern time, regardless of subject matter.
2. The one email in your chief FOIA officer's email spam folder or equivalent which was received nearest and before October 19, 2024, midnight Eastern time, regardless of subject matter.
3. The one email in your chief FOIA officer's sent email folder or equivalent which was sent nearest and before October 19, 2024, midnight Eastern time, regardless of subject matter.
4. The total full-time equivalent count of people who work for your FOIA office as of October 19, 2024.

This request is expressly limited to U.S. Census Bureau's own FOIA office. Please do not refer it to any other agency or division. This request is expressly not a Privacy Act request, and no PA waiver will be provided.

Please provide the email records in EML, Maildir, MBOX, MIX, MSG, or PST format only — not PDF, Word, image, etc — including all metadata (e.g. full email headers as received/sent) and attachments, without alteration other than narrowly tailored electronic redaction of specifically claimed exemptions that do not affect any part of non exempt information (and, in particular, without rasterization).

Please provide the fourth record as a statement in your response letter, or at your option, as the most readily available record, in original electronic format as currently stored on your computer systems, which includes that information.

Please provide all records either as individual files, or as an unencrypted ZIP file, uploaded to MuckRock. Do not apply any encryption, DRM, or other restriction.

I request fee waiver, because
* Fiat Fiendum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit;
* this request is for public interest, non-commercial purposes;
* these records would give a snapshot of insight into the everyday processes of FOIA offices; and
* these records are being requested in order to conduct a government-wide audit of agencies' FOIA compliance.

In the event that you deny fee waiver, please process this request as-is, because I will not agree to any fees.

Please be sure to provide:
* 5 USC 552(a)(6)(A)(i)(II) FOIA Public Liaison information
* 5 USC 552(a)(6)(A)(i)(III)(aa) appeal information
* 5 USC 552(a)(6)(A)(i)(III)(bb) OGIS information
* 5 USC 552(a)(7)(A) tracking number
* 5 USC 552(a)(7)(B)(ii) completion ETA

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,
Sai
President, Fiat Fiendum, Inc.

P.S. Sai is my full legal name.

From: U.S. Census Bureau

Dear Sai Sai,

Case Number DOC-CEN-2025-000025 has been assigned to the request you submitted. In all future correspondence regarding this request please reference case number DOC-CEN-2025-000025.
Regards,
U.S. Department of Commerce

From: U.S. Census Bureau

Dear Sai Sai,

The status of your CEN FOIA request #DOC-CEN-2025-000025 has been updated to the following status 'Received'. To log into the DOC PAL Application click on the Application URL below.

https://foia-pal.commerce.gov

Sincerely,
U.S. Department of Commerce

From: U.S. Census Bureau

sent you a secure message (#) census.efoia@census.gov
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From: U.S. Census Bureau

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From: U.S. Census Bureau

Census - General

Good morning, Sai,

The responsive records requested by you and assigned to DOC-CEN-2025-000025 were forwarded to you on November 21, 2024, and expired on December 21, 2024.
The records and a letter addressed to you were sent using Kiteworks which is a secure encrypted messaging system used by the Census Bureau to send messages safely.

We will send your responsive records and letter again this morning using the same Kiteworks system.

You will receive an email message at the email address supplied by you when you made your FOIA request. When you access that email message, you'll see a clickable "button" that says "Access message here", or something very close to that.

Click on that button.

The system will instruct you to enter your email address. After you enter your email address you will be asked for a password. This is a password that you will create as this will be your Kiteworks account. Once you enter your password you will be able to access your letter and responsive records.

Remember these documents are only accessible for 30 days after which they expire. Please look for this message today and access the documents timely.

Very respectfully,

The Census Bureau FOIA Team

Census - General

From: U.S. Census Bureau

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